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International peace conference in Rome

Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors Koko Kondo, 80, (R) and Toshiko Tanaka, 87, pose for a photo after attending an international conference on peace in Rome on Oct. 28, 2025.

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Japan-China high-level dialogue

(from L) Japanese Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Toshiko Abe, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, are pictured ahead of a high-level cultural exchange dialogue in Beijing on Dec. 25, 2024.

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Japanese education minister Abe

Japanese education minister Toshiko Abe speaks at a press conference at the ministry in Tokyo on Nov. 12, 2024.

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Lineup of Japan PM Ishiba's Cabinet

Toshiko Abe, who is set to become education, culture, sports, science and technology minister in the Cabinet of new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, arrives at the premier's office in Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2024, before her attestation in a ceremony at the Imperial Palace.

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Tests of Fukushima wastewater release facility spark outcry

STORY: Tests of Fukushima wastewater release facility spark outcry DATELINE: June 13, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:42 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: POLITICS/ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of Japan 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): MIZUHO FUKUSHIMA, Head of Social Democratic Party 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): TOSHIKO OKADA, Member of a citizens' group 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Japanese): MUKAI, Sanya Labor Center member 5. screenshots of netizens' comments 6. various of Japan STORYLINE: The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has begun testing the equipment to discharge nuclear-contaminated water into the Pacific amid fierce opposition from home and abroad. Fears of nuclear contamination are growing, as many are worried that the environmental impact will be irreversible and can not be tested. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): MIZUHO FUKUSHIMA, Head of Social Democratic Party "Radioactive materials, once discharged, cannot be retrieved, so they must be intensively managed. Such materials would be beyond management i

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12 years after Fukushima quake, Japanese public opposes dumping nuke wastewater into sea

STORY: 12 years after Fukushima quake, Japanese public opposes dumping nuke wastewater into sea DATELINE: March 12, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:08 LOCATION: Tokyo CATEGORY: SOCIETY\ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of people gathering early Saturday to express their strong opposition to the discharge plan 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Japanese): MAKOTO YANAGIDA, Japanese environmental organization Tanpoposya 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Japanese): JONNY H. (pseudonym), Guitarist 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (Japanese): MUKAI, Sanya Labor Center member 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (Japanese): TOSHIKO OKADA, Member of a citizens' group STORYLINE: As Japan moves to push ahead with dumping nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, local residents are expressing their anger and opposition. Saturday marked the 12th year after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit northeast Japan. An ensuing tsunami also led to core meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), resultin

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Hiroshima mayor poses with A-bomb survivors

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (2nd from R) poses with A-bomb survivors Ryukei Omoto (L), Mikio Miura (2nd from L) and Toshiko Tanaka at the city hall in Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 4, 2014, before reading out Hiroshima's Peace Declaration, including reference to their experiences, at the 69th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing in World War II on Aug. 6.

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Japanese man completes walk around world with 2-wheeled cart

SHANGHAI, China - Japan's Masahito Yoshida (front R) celebrates with his mother Toshiko (2nd from L) in People's Square in Shanghai on June 9, 2013, after completing his walk around the world in which he covered about 40,000 kilometers with a two-wheeled cart after leaving Shanghai on New Year's Day 2009.

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Apparent draft letter about Ogai

HAMAMATSU, Japan - A Sept. 13, 2012, photo taken in Iwata, Shizuoka Prefecture, shows a manuscript believed to be a draft letter describing the circumstances leading up to the divorce of Japanese novelist Mori Ogai (1862-1922) from his first wife Akamatsu Toshiko. The Iwata education board announced the finding of the letter that day.

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Exhibit of over 1 mil. antinuke signatures starts at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Lee Sil Gun (R), an atomic-bomb survivor, shakes hands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (L), during an opening event on March 24, 2011, which highlights signatures collected from around the globe calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Toshiko Tanaka, another Hiroshima survivor, looks on (just right of Ban).

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Heavy rain on Amami-Oshima Island

AMAMI, Japan - Photo shows a home damaged by a mudslide triggered by heavy rain that led to the death of 88-year-old Toshiko Miyanohara in the town of Tatsugo on Amami-Oshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Oct. 21, 2010.

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A-bomb survivors to appear in TV commercial in Australia

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Toshiko Tanaka (R) from Hiroshima is filmed at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on July 23, 2010, for a television commercial featuring atomic-bomb survivors appealing for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The commercial will be broadcast nationwide in Australia on Aug. 6, the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

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'Battleship' island opened to public for 1st time in 35 yrs

NAGASAKI, Japan - Toshiko Kuroda, who formerly lived on Hashima Island, points to the ruin of a condominium on the island off the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki on April 22. She visited the tiny uninhabited island, nicknamed Gunkanjima (battleship island), after the city of Nagasaki allowed people to make a one-day trip there for the first time in 35 years.

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Toshiko Akiyoshi awarded highest honor in U.S. jazz

NEW YORK, United States - Jazz great Toshiko Akiyoshi (2nd L, front row) joins other acclaimed musicians and jazz contributors to be awarded the 2007 National Endowment for the Arts' Jazz Master award in New York on Jan. 12. Akiyoshi, 77, dressed in a shimmering black dress adorned with flowers, told the packed audience at the Hilton New York Hotel that she was ''extremely honored to receive this highest award a jazz musician can possibly have.''

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Jazz great selects social, political songs to fete Japan's entry into U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Famous jazz pianist and composer Toshiko Akiyoshi performs at the United Nations in New York recently to mark Japan's 50th anniversary of its entry into the international body.

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Empress Michiko enjoys jazz music

TOKYO, Japan - Empress Michiko (C) enjoys a concert by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in Tokyo on Sept. 12. (Pool photo)

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Nurse group exec Abe to run for LDP in Okayama vs. Hiranuma

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiko Abe (R), vice president of the Japanese Nursing Association, announces at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 20 aside LDP Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe that she will run for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the upcoming Sept. 11 general election in an Okayama constituency where former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma is expected to run.

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3 more, including 4-yr-old boy, listed as suspected abductees

TOKYO, Japan - Three more people have been added to the list of those who may have been kidnapped by North Korean agents, a private organization investigating the abduction issue said June 27. The photo released by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea shows Toshiko Sekiya, from Chiba Prefecture, who went missing in July 1974 at age 17.

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(1)7 dead at 2 Hyogo Pref. homes, relative confesses to killing

OSAKA, Japan - Aerial photo shows the house of Toshiko Fujishiro (1) and that of Toshihiko Fujishiro (2) in Kakogawa, Hyogo Prefecture. Toshiko and her sons Katsunori and Yoshihisa were found stabbed to death at Toshiko's house on Aug. 2, while Toshihiko, his wife Sumiko, son Shinichi, and daughter Midori were found stabbed to death at Toshihiko's house.

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(3)A-bomb victims sue gov't

NAGASAKI, Japan - Toshiko Aoyama (L), accompanied by her lawyers and supporters, walks to the Nagasaki District Court on April 17 to file a suit against the state seeking compensation and the revoking of its decision not to recognize her as a radiation illness victim. Similar suits were filed on the day by six other A-bomb survivors in Sapporo and Nagoya.

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(5)Abduction investigation group releases list of 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Photos of some of the 44 missing people disclosed Feb. 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), a group formed to look into cases of possible abductions of Japanese by North Korea. (From L to R, top) Kumiko Kato, Toshiko Sonoda, Sachiko Hatano, Toshiaki Tamai, (from L to R, bottom) Toshiyuki Adachi, Junko Imazu, Yoshinori Kimoto and Koji Wada.

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New Komeito reelects Kanzaki as party leader

TOKYO, Japan - The New Komeito party, one of the three ruling coalition parties, reelected Takenori Kanzaki (C) as its leader at a party convention in Tokyo on Nov. 2. Kanzaki reappointed Tetsuzo Fuyushiba (R) as secretary general and Toshiko Hamayotsu (L) as acting representative.

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(3)Abductees visit relatives, graves

OBAMA, Japan - Fukie Hamamoto (R) and Yasushi Chimura (2nd from R) head for the grave of Chimura's mother Toshiko, who died at age 74 in April, in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 18. The couple, who got married in North Korea in 1979, returned to their homes in Obama on Oct. 17 for the first time since being abducted to North Korea in 1978. (Pool photo)

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(2)Abductees visit relatives, graves

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (2nd from R) prays at the grave of his mother Toshiko, who died at age 74 in April, in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 18. Chimura, along with Fukie Hamamoto to whom Chimura got married in 1979 in North Korea, returned to their homes in Obama on Oct. 17 for the first time since being abducted to North Korea in 1978. (Pool photo)

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(1)Terrorist attacks

NEW YORK, United States - Toshiko Yamasaki, who serves as an interpreter at New York's Family Assistance Center, points to a Japanese-language Internet site her group opened Sept. 17 to help Japanese families register relatives who went missing in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. Yamasaki said the site was created to help families register missing relatives hired locally by American companies.

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Toshiko Akiyoshi to play requiem for Hiroshima A-bomb victims

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese jazz pianist and composer Toshiko Akiyoshi speaks at a press conference in New York on July 2 about her newest composition, ''Hiroshima, Rising From the Abyss.'' She said she plans to perform the requiem in a world debut in Hiroshima on Aug. 6, the 56th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack.

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(2)Abductees visit relatives, graves

OBAMA, Japan - Yasushi Chimura (2nd from R) prays at the grave of his mother Toshiko, who died at age 74 in April, in Obama, Fukui Prefecture, on Oct. 18. Chimura, along with Fukie Hamamoto to whom Chimura got married in 1979 in North Korea, returned to their homes in Obama on Oct. 17 for the first time since being abducted to North Korea in 1978. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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(5)Abduction investigation group releases list of 44 people

TOKYO, Japan - Photos of some of the 44 missing people disclosed Feb. 10 by the Investigation Commission on Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea (COMJAN), a group formed to look into cases of possible abductions of Japanese by North Korea. (From L to R, top) Kumiko Kato, Toshiko Sonoda, Sachiko Hatano, Toshiaki Tamai, (from L to R, bottom) Toshiyuki Adachi, Junko Imazu, Yoshinori Kimoto and Koji Wada. (Kyodo)

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New Komeito reelects Kanzaki as party leader

TOKYO, Japan - The New Komeito party, one of the three ruling coalition parties, reelected Takenori Kanzaki (C) as its leader at a party convention in Tokyo on Nov. 2. Kanzaki reappointed Tetsuzo Fuyushiba (R) as secretary general and Toshiko Hamayotsu (L) as acting representative. (Kyodo)

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Still Walking (2008)

Yui Natsukawa, Kirin Kiki, Shohei Tanaka & Hiroshi Abe Characters: Yukari Yokoyama, Toshiko Yokoyama, Atsushi Yokoyama, Ryota Yokoyama Film: Still Walking (2008) Director: Hirokazu Koreeda 28 June 2008 Date: 28 June 2008

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Still Walking (2008)

Yui Natsukawa, Kirin Kiki, Shohei Tanaka & Hiroshi Abe Poster Characters: Yukari Yokoyama, Toshiko Yokoyama, Atsushi Yokoyama, Ryota Yokoyama Film: Still Walking (2008) Director: Hirokazu Koreeda 28 June 2008 Date: 28 June 2008

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Still Walking (2008)

Kirin Kiki & Hiroshi Abe Characters: Toshiko Yokoyama, Ryota Yokoyama Film: Still Walking (2008) Director: Hirokazu Koreeda 28 June 2008 Date: 28 June 2008

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Still Walking (2008)

Yoshio Harada, Shohei Tanaka & Kirin Kiki Characters: Kyohei Yokoyama, Atsushi Yokoyama, Toshiko Yokoyama Film: Still Walking (2008) Director: Hirokazu Koreeda 28 June 2008 Date: 28 June 2008

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Shark Skin Man, Peach Hip Girl (1998)

Sie Kohinata Characters: Toshiko Momojiri Film: Shark Skin Man, Peach Hip Girl (1998) Director: Katsuhito Ishii 05 September 1998 Date: 05 September 1998

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TORCHWOOD

TORCHWOOD Captain Jack Harness (John Barrowman), Gwen (Eve Myles), Ianto (Gareth Lloyd-Davies), Owen (Burn Gorman), Toshiko (Naoko Mori) TORCHWOOD JOHN BARROWMAN as Captain Jack Harness, EVEN MYLES as Gwen, GARETH LLOYD-DAVIES as Ianto, BURN GORMAN as Owen, NAOKO MORI as Toshiko Date: 2008

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NO SPOTS FOR TOSHIKO

NO SPOTS FOR TOSHIKO==Date:Feb, 1972, Place:JAPAN, (Credit:INTERNATIONAL MOTION PICTURE/Kyodo News Images)

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Nagasaki school teacher shows memoir of 1945 A-bomb experience

Toshiko Yamasaki, a former elementary school teacher in Nagasaki, holds her memoir of the 1945 atomic bombing of the city at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims in the southwestern Japan city on July 4, 2015. The museum began an exhibition the same day themed on a collection of compositions written about four years after the blast by surviving pupils, to whom Yamasaki provided guidance at the time. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Akita women to apply for "largest thread ball" record with Guinness

Toshiko Abe, 71, head of an association preserving Yurihonjo folk crafts, makes stitches on a thread ball, measuring 2.16 meters in diameter and weighing 440 kilograms, in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture in northeastern Japan, in March 2015. A group of local women led by Abe spent about half a year creating the ball with a firework motif, using the techniques of Honjo Gotemmari, a thread ball and local folk art. They plan to apply to Guinness World Records for recognition as the world's largest thread ball. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ceremony to start minting coins for 50th anniv. of Shinkansen

Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Finance Toshiko Takeya (C) attends a ceremony at the Japan Mint in Osaka on Jan. 30, 2015, to start minting commemorative coins for the 50th anniversary of Japan's Shinkansen bullet train operation. The coins will be exchangeable with 100-yen coins. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Empress Michiko enjoys jazz music

TOKYO, Japan - Empress Michiko (C) enjoys a concert by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in Tokyo on Sept. 12. (Pool photo)(Kyodo)

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Nurse group exec Abe to run for LDP in Okayama vs. Hiranuma

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiko Abe (R), vice president of the Japanese Nursing Association, announces at a news conference in Tokyo on Aug. 20 aside LDP Secretary General Tsutomu Takebe that she will run for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party in the upcoming Sept. 11 general election in an Okayama constituency where former trade minister Takeo Hiranuma is expected to run. (Kyodo)

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'Battleship' island opened to public for 1st time in 35 yrs

NAGASAKI, Japan - Toshiko Kuroda, who formerly lived on Hashima Island, points to the ruin of a condominium on the island off the southwestern Japan prefecture of Nagasaki on April 22. She visited the tiny uninhabited island, nicknamed Gunkanjima (battleship island), after the city of Nagasaki allowed people to make a one-day trip there for the first time in 35 years. (Kyodo)

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Toshiko Akiyoshi awarded highest honor in U.S. jazz

NEW YORK, United States - Jazz great Toshiko Akiyoshi (2nd L, front row) joins other acclaimed musicians and jazz contributors to be awarded the 2007 National Endowment for the Arts' Jazz Master award in New York on Jan. 12. Akiyoshi, 77, dressed in a shimmering black dress adorned with flowers, told the packed audience at the Hilton New York Hotel that she was ''extremely honored to receive this highest award a jazz musician can possibly have.'' (Kyodo)

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Pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi wins NEA Jazz Masters Award

TOKYO, Japan - Jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 7 about her winning the Jazz Masters Award by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA honored Akiyoshi for rebuilding the tradition of big band for contemporary audiences through her vivid tones and international influence. (Kyodo)

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Heavy rain on Amami-Oshima Island

AMAMI, Japan - Photo shows a home damaged by a mudslide triggered by heavy rain that led to the death of 88-year-old Toshiko Miyanohara in the town of Tatsugo on Amami-Oshima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Oct. 21, 2010. (Kyodo)

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A-bomb survivors to appear in TV commercial in Australia

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Toshiko Tanaka (R) from Hiroshima is filmed at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on July 23, 2010, for a television commercial featuring atomic-bomb survivors appealing for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The commercial will be broadcast nationwide in Australia on Aug. 6, the 65th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima. (Kyodo)

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Exhibit of over 1 mil. antinuke signatures starts at U.N.

NEW YORK, United States - Lee Sil Gun (R), an atomic-bomb survivor, shakes hands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon (L), during an opening event on March 24, 2011, which highlights signatures collected from around the globe calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Toshiko Tanaka, another Hiroshima survivor, looks on (just right of Ban). (Kyodo)

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Hiroshima mayor poses with A-bomb survivors

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (2nd from R) poses with A-bomb survivors Ryukei Omoto (L), Mikio Miura (2nd from L) and Toshiko Tanaka at the city hall in Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 4, 2014, before reading out Hiroshima's Peace Declaration, including reference to their experiences, at the 69th anniversary of U.S. atomic bombing in World War II on Aug. 6. (Kyodo)

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Japan PM Suga meets with medical, nursing association heads

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (far L) holds a meeting with Toshiko Fukui (far R), president of the Japanese Nursing Association, and Toshio Nakagawa (2nd from R), president of the Japan Medical Association, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 30, 2021.

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Japan PM Suga meets with medical, nursing association heads

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (R) is pictured during his meeting with Toshio Nakagawa, president of the Japan Medical Association, and Toshiko Fukui, president of the Japanese Nursing Association, at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on April 30, 2021. Seen left of Suga is Taro Kono, minister in charge of vaccination efforts.